Tom_Q wrote:I'm sorry, but did you've just put classic drama in the same line as transformation-driven fetish literature?
Please tell me you are not serious here and it was just a really dull joke.
As the infallible Wikipedia (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy) puts it: "Tragedy is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences." "Punishment"--deserved or otherwise--is often a central theme of "tragedy" as form of dramatic (or literary) art. The device of "the tragic story" seems to be roughly as old, well-established, and popular as the practice of storytelling itself. The names I referenced previously are examples reflecting that reality.
So, Tom_Q, my response is: no, it wasn't "just a really dull joke." My point is that a story focusing on the sufferings of a protagonist (including punishment "tied with humiliation"), and providing no happy ending, not only
can be a good story, but is in fact a well-established style of storytelling that has been widely practiced, widely popular, and widely praised for a very long time. And it remains so today. This is relevant to discussing the existence and merit of "punishment as a theme," whether in fetish fiction or otherwise. (Plus, there was kind of a
lot of eyebrow-raising, often at least vaguely sexy-time-related transformation stuff going down in some of those ancient Greek and Roman stories.) "Punishment as a theme" exists and persists because some folks find it entertaining, for reasons that are both various and legitimate.
You've already made clear that you "really, REALLY dislike" punishment and humiliation in your fetish fiction (or maybe all fiction in general, I dunno?), and that's cool. I can respect that. Everybody has his or her own preferences. My humble suggestion is just that perhaps you, and all of us, keep an open mind about returning that gesture.